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1
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war of currents

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edison v tesla

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nativism

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anti immigrants

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what did middlemen do

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helped immigrants find employment and housing; charged for services

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what immigrants were primarily targeted

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catholics and jews from southern and eastern europe; asians

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apa

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american protection association; anti immigrant

limited catholic rights to protect protestant jobs

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6
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irl

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immigrant restriction league
literacy test (assuming southern and eastern europeans would fail)
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7
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naturalization act

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1870
limited citizens to white and black people
prevent chinese from becoming citizens
not lifted until 1943

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chinese exclusion act

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1882

pushed by nativists and labor unions

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9
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graft

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political corruption for personal gain

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10
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patronage

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give friends jobs

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tammany hall

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patronage

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12
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mugwamps

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republicans

voted for cleveland over james blaine bc of scandals

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stalwarts

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in favor of patronage

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half breeds

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in favor of civil service reform

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grant

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corruption
whiskey ring
credit mobilier scandal
republican

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compromise of 1877

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hayes (repub) won election
republicans withdrew from south
reconstruction ended

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garfield

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assassinated
stalwart
led to pendleton civil service reform act

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chester a arthur

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stalwart to half breed
elected through spoils system
abandoned it
one and done

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grange

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1866-1880s

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20
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farmers alliance

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1880s-1892

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21
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populist party

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1892-1920

omaha platform

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omaha platform

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direct election of senators
use of initiative and referendums
unlimited coinage of silver
graduated income tax
8 hour day
becomes ruling doctrine of 2 parties
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election of 1896

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decline of populists
couldn’t unite poor whites and blacks
platform adopted by 2 parties

24
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william jennings bryan

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democratic nominee 4 times
unlimited coinage of silver
fueled by panics of 1873 and 1893

25
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illinois constitution 1870

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wanted to regulate discrimination in rates for railroads

26
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munn v illinois

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gov could regulate any business with public interest for good of ppl

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national anti monopoly league

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1881
new york
railroad reforms

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wabash v illinois

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states could not regulate interstate railroad traffic

railroad legislation useless

29
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interstate commerce act

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cleveland
1887
no discriminatory rates
interstate commerce commission

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ICC

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irrelevant

couldn’t fix rates

31
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trusts

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monopolies
railroads
oil
steel

32
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first wave of titans

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more aggressive with spending

jay gould, etc.

33
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vertical integration

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carnegie

control all processes

34
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horizontal integration

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rockefeller

buy out competition

35
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great railroad strike 1877

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bc of wage cuts in railroads
railroad burning
inspired rise of labor unions
all across country

36
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knights of labor

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most powerful union following GRS 1877
wanted 8 hour work day
equal pay for women
included minorities
both skilled and unskilled
believed in boycotts and arbitration not strikes
political reform and graduated income tax

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american federation of labor

A 
samuel gompers
separate craft unions
skilled labor only
aristocracy of labor
collective bargaining
38
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collective bargaining

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similar jobs (not same) unite to have stronger argument

39
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american railway union

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great northern railway strike
pullman strikes
will develop into socialists

40
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industrial workers of the world

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wobblies
goal is one big union of all workers
no discrimination

41
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eugene debs

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american railway union

socialist party

42
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terence v. powderly

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knights of labor

43
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mother jones

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wobblies

44
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samuel gompers

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american federation of labor

45
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big bill hollywood

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wobblies and western federation of miners

46
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pinkerton agency

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regulate labor movement

47
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haymarket affair

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8 hour day
workers in chicago
someone threw bomb
one officer killed then, six later
bad for knights of labor
48
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homestead strike

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carnegie plant in PA
hired new nonunion workers when they protested
pinkerton agents to protect new workers
shots fired
plant ended with nonunion workers
49
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coxey’s army

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marched to d.c. to end unemployment

panic of 1893

50
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molly maguires

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miners- irish immigrants

attacked and sometimes killed mine leaders

51
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lawrence strike 1912

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14,000 strikers
different countries
diff languagess
protesting pay cuts

52
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ludlow strikes 1914

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against rockefeller
wanted more wages, less work time
ludlow massacre- 20 ppl killed

53
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triangle shirt factory

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1914
146 people killed
new reforms

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